A New Year

It's the second day of 2011, and it's amazing that another decade has since passed.

It seems like just yesterday we were preparing for Y2K-- we were encouraged to fill up our car's gas tank, have a few gallons of bottled water on hand, and enough non-perishable food to last 2 or 3 weeks-- wondering if the world's computer system was going to crash.

Now, that it's a new year, a few friends have asked me if I've made my New Year's resolutions.

I've never been big on resolutions, and I'm not going to start making any now. (But, I will say that I'm continuing to live a healthier life.)

But that doesn't stop me from making some predictions for the City of Worcester.

I mentioned on the new episode of "508", that was recorded on Friday(31st), that I believe, "Worcester is peeking around the corner at what we can become, but we're afraid to venture down that road towards being a MAJOR city."

Maybe with the demolition of the Worcester Common Outlet and heavily pursuing technological and health care companies, Worcester's landscape & mindset will too change?

When we discussed what we're looking forward to in 2011 in Worcester, there were a number of good points raised and I stated that I'd like to see the Worcester Consortium of Schools doing more to get college students involved and change the mindset that they're "visitors".(Sure, this may take awhile, and the students must want to "adopt" Worcester as their home away from home, but it is possible.)

So, I have to ask, what do you think will be the BIG changes to take place in Worcester this year?(Post a comment, please.)